To: all-ai
Subject: GSB, Friday September 30th, 5:30PM.
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Last week David Baggett sent out a message explaining What GSB Is.
Valuable information, but like being told the rules of chess- no matter how
well you understand them, it's not enough to play the game.  Perhaps the
discussion below will help newcomers to the lab avoid some common mistakes.

Also, at this week's Girl Scout Benefit Mr. Michael Blair will be
displaying his wares, in particular some six "dimpled British pub mugs" for
resale at $1.00 apiece.  They will sell quickly, no doubt.

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Some of you may be familiar with the book "The Best Places to Kiss in New
England", prominently displayed in many local bookstores.  As might be
expected in this age of television and billboards, most of the listed
locations are mundane, selected for the unimaginative plodders who believe
that romance is found in a restaurant and exuberance in a bed and
breakfast.  Even at its most daring, the book musters up no more than an
autumn hike up the easy side of Mount Monadnock.

Think of the alternatives Tech Square has to offer!

* Cramped inside an empty octant of the CM-2 on the ninth floor, secured in
  privacy by the noise of the nearby air-conditioning unit and faces ruddy
  under the electric aura of red light-emitting diodes.

* Or laying, back to the ground and face to the stars, on the treadmill of
  the leg lab, watching the expanse of the African savanna fly by under the
  hoofs of computer-simulated quadrupeds.

* Or in the Intelligent Room, viewed and analyzed by a sentient being a
  thousand times a second, giving first memories to this child, perhaps
  implanting the seeds of love and desire in the computer caretakers of
  future human generations.

Yes, if you're a dreamer or poet or lover you can sate yourself within the
building.  But the single least appropriate and least enticing place to
kiss in New England is also inside Tech Square.

And that is why we ask couples not to embrace while standing in amongst the
watery dregs of the yellow beer barrel at this week's

		    G I R L   S C O U T   B E N E F I T

where unusual or inappropriate expressions of emotion will as always
receive a mixture of perfunctory dismissal and raucous jeers.

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